KOL206 | Tom Woods Show: Five Mistakes Libertarians Make
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Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 206. [Transcript below] I discussed various libertarian with Tom Woods on his show today, Episode 592. From Tom's show notes: Stephan Kinsella joins me to discuss negative/positive rights and obligations, “loser pays,” whether creation makes you an owner, how we can consider spam aggression, and more. Fun! Background materials for topics discussed: Spam: Why Spam is Trespass (Jan. 18, 2010) Kinsella & Tinsley, Causation and Aggression Positive rights and libertarianism: How We Come To Own Ourselves Objectivists on Positive Parental Obligations and Abortion Loser pays unlibertarian: See "Losing Patentee Pays" section of Reducing the Cost of IP Law Creation not a source of ownership: Hoppe on Property Rights in Physical Integrity vs Value Intellectual Freedom and Learning Versus Patent and Copyright “Locke on IP; Mises, Rothbard, and Rand on Creation, Production, and ‘Rearranging’,” Mises Economics Blog (Sep. 29, 2010) [updated C4SIF version, including Hoppe comments] “The Intellectual Property Quagmire, or, The Perils of Libertarian Creationism,” Austrian Scholars Conference 2008 (March 13, 2008) “Objectivist Law Prof Mossoff on Copyright; or, the Misuse of Labor, Value, and Creation Metaphors,” Mises Economics Blog (April 19, 2011) Rand on IP, Owning "Values", and "Rearrangement Rights" Related/previous talks: KOL118 | Tom Woods Show: Against Fuzzy Thinking KOL 044 | “Correcting some Common Libertarian Misconceptions” (PFS 2011) “Libertarian Controversies” “Correcting some Common Libertarian Misconceptions,” 2011 Annual Meeting, Property and Freedom Society (May 28, 2011) [podcast here] KOL185: Clarifying Libertarian Theory (Liberty.me, July 2014) ❧ Transcript [not yet edited] Tom Woods Show: Five Mistakes Libertarians Make Stephan Kinsella and Tom Woods, "Tom Woods Show: Five Mistakes Libertarians Make," StephanKinsella.com (Feb. 12, 2016) 00:00:00 TOM WOODS: The Tom Woods Show, episode 592. 00:00:03 INTRO: Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. 00:00:14 TOM WOODS: Hey everybody. Welcome to another episode of the show. Talking to Stephan Kinsella today because he’s just – he’s got one of those sharp, sharp minds. He thinks clearly. He writes clearly. He writes and speaks very precisely. He helps to clarify my own thinking, and I thought we’d talk about some areas of libertarian thought or some questions where we’re liable to get off track or get confused or maybe not really know what the right libertarian answer is. So it’s always fun to talk to Stephan who is a libertarian legal theorist. He is the author of Against Intellectual Property and many articles that are of importance in libertarian theory. We’ll be linking, of course, to his material and his contact information at tomwoods.com/592. 00:01:09 Now, let me tell you one quick thing. I don’t know why this happens, but one episode out of 100 the recording software I use just fails completely, and you have no warning that it’s going to fail. It’s recording perfectly fine. You can catch the clock going, and then boom, no recording when you’re all done. It’s Pamela, by the way, Pamela for Skype. Now, you really need software to be 100% reliable. You really do, so if you have an alternative to Pamela, I would grab it. Right now, I don’t have time to figure out an alternative, so thank goodness; thank goodness Stephan was recording th...